Fact Check: X user posted about 'Corona virus' in 2013, but there's no reason to believe post was about COVID-19

The first reports of coronavirus — a group of viruses that includes COVID-19 and other diseases — go back to the 1930s.

X user posted about 'Corona virus' in 2013, but there's no reason to believe post was about COVID-19

The first reports of coronavirus — a group of viruses that includes COVID-19 and other diseases — go back to the 1930s.
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Science history: 'Patient zero' catches SARS, the older cousin of COVID — Nov. 16, 2002

A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it ...
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Muslim hajj crowds thinned by virus concerns

THE number of the pilgrims to the annual Islamic hajj this year has been reduced by concerns over a respiratory virus in the Arabian peninsula. More than 2 million pilgrims - about 1 million fewer ...